Formatting the svn log output

Question

I have been generating change logs in subversion using the svn log command. To make it easier to read, I'd like to add a newline after each revision's comments. If the output initially appears like this:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision 1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision 2
------------------------------------------------------------------------

I would like it to appear like this instead:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision 1


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision 2


------------------------------------------------------------------------

I tried using the following command in batch:

FOR /L %%i IN (starting_revision, 1, ending_revision) DO (

svn log branch_name -r %%i --incremental >> output.txt
echo. >> output.txt
echo. >> output.txt

)

This seemed to work initially, but since not every one of the revisions was made to the branch I am working on, it ended up printing extra newlines in some parts of the text file. Does anyone know how I might avoid this problem?

Answer 1

You can use --xml option with the svn log command-line. Parsing xml'ed output will allow you to format it in any way you want.